YI. Read, translate and retell the text about hobbies

    From the old English word hobby meaning horse, came the modern word hobbyhorse. This is a dummy horse attached to a performer who pretended to be riding a horse in a play or a dance. Hobbyhorse has been shortened to hobby to describe any favourite leisure time occupation. This word has become rather common in modern usage.

    Leisure time occupations, or hobbies, can be divided into four groups: doing things, making things, collecting things and learning things. Of these four groups, doing things is the most popular. It includes a wide range of activities, from gardening to sailing and from chess to foreign travel. Some of these hobbies require very little equipment while others require considerably more. There is also a choice between mental and physical activities, indoor and outdoor pursuits, etc.

 

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      Leisure time occupations can be more or less active. A real hobby is usually defined as something creative and individual, sometimes even as something obsessive, unusual or eccentric.

    YII. Read and learn some kinds of indoor and outdoor activities.

Indoor activities.

Doing things: reading; listening to records or to the radio; watching television; entertaining friends; playing games; painting, mending things.

Making things: models; needlework; making music, i.e. singing or playing musical instruments; cooking and baking; home decorating and repairing.

Collecting things: collecting stamps, postcards, coins, bottles, books, butterflies and other things.

Learning things: learning foreign languages, learning to play a musical instrument, studying music art, literature or other subjects.

Outdoor activities.

Sport activities:  athletics, gymnastics, cycling, swimming, sailing, rowing, canoeing, racing, skiing, mountaineering, climbing.

Other activities: gardening, fishing, travelling, walking, driving a car, visiting a choir, watching outdoor sports.

 

YIII. Read and translate the text about your friend. Fill in the gaps with the words given in the box:

11 p.m..   Local bus. One day.

On his homework.   First-year student. Finishes with.

A glass of orange juice and an egg. Suburb near Kyiv. In the Institute canteen.

At 8.30 a.m.   Team-mates. 7.30 a.m.

 

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My friend Nick lives in a _________. He is a ___________. Every morning he gets up at __________. He has __________ for breakfast and leaves the house _________. He goes to the Institute by metro. He usually has 4 periods before

lunch. He does not take a packed lunch from house and prefers to eat __________. Then he plays football with his _________. Nick is a promising

football player and he dreams that _________ he will be invited to play for “Dynamo”. After his training he takes a ________ home and has dinner about 7 o’clock. Nick does not spend much time _________ and it is usually ready by 9 o’clock. His usual evening _________ watching TV or listening to the CDs of his favourite pop-groups. He goes to bed at _________.

 

IX. Answer the questions about a working day and a day off. Fill in each gap with the necessary prepositions:

1. What time do you usually wake ____? ______ seven ________ weekdays. ______ a quarter _______ eight on Sundays, _______ half _______ seven ________ summer.

2. When the alarm clock rang I jumped _______ ________ bed, switched _________ the radio and started doing my morning exercises _______ music.

3. He prefers to go ________ a walk _______ the morning when the air is fresh. He never goes _______ _______ weekday evening and always has dinner _______ home.

4. She does not live very far ______ her Institute. It takes her half an hour _______ foot and ten minutes if she goes _______ bus.

5.I got ______ early _______ the morning and felt sleepy ________ the daytime but when my friends left me _______ the evening I felt so excited that I could not fall asleep.

 

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X. Find 10 words dealing with different leisure activities and hobbies. The first word is for you:

V	X	K	H	O	B	B	I	E	S	F
S	P	R	I	D	D	U	R	D	P	C
M	A	O	K	R	A	L	C	I	O	U
S	I	N	G	I	N	G	O	M	R	T
O	N	S	U	R	C	L	A	R	T	S
L	T	E	N	N	I	S	R	I	S	O
N	I	C	N	O	N	K	P	C	O	M
I	N	H	A	T	G	A	E	R	Q	E
E	G	O	L	F	Q	T	L	T	S	R
O	K	S	M	O	V	I	E	S	P	K
T	R	F	B	R	A	N	O	J	L	O
D	O	E	C	S	E	G	I	K	N	H

 

XI. Match the leisure activities with the verbs they go with:

Leisure activity	to go to	to go	to do	to watch	to go in for	to be keen on	to play	to be interested in
A disco
Skiing
Video games
Yoga
The opera
A nightclub
Basketball
The theatre
Fishing
Aerobics
Tennis
Karate
Football
Badminton
Figure skating
Weight training
jogging

 

    XII. Read and translate the text about hobbies. Retell it according to the questions given below.

Hobbies

    Hobbies differ like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby according your character and taste you are lucky because your life becomes more interesting.

    Hobbies are divided into four large groups: doing things, making things, collecting things and learning things.

    The most popular of all hobby groups are doing things. It includes a wide variety of activities, from gardening to travelling and from chess to volleyball.

    Both grown-up and children are fond of playing different computer games. This is a relatively new hobby but it is becoming more and more popular.

Making things includes drawing, painting, making sculpture, designing costumes and handicraft.

 

 

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Almost everyone collects something at some period of his life: stamps, coins, matchboxes, books, postcards, toys, watches. Some collections have no real

value. People with a good deal of money often collect paintings, rare books and other art objects.

    No matter what kind of hobby a person has, he always has opportunity of learning much from it. Learning new things can be the most exciting aspect of a hobby.

     Questions:

• Tastes differ. Can you say the same about hobbies?

• Have you chosen a hobby according to your character and taste?

• Which hobby groups do you know?

• The most popular hobby group is doing things, isn’t it? What kind of activities does this group include?

• What do you know about computer games?

• Are you fond of making things?

• Have you ever collected anything?

• What can be collected?

XIII. Learn the topical Speech Patterns:

                                                   a)

- What is your hobby? My hobby is collecting old coins.

- What is your hobby, Jane? Dancing. I am crazy about dancing.

- What is your favourite pastime? I like chatting to my old friends. I also like reading.

- What do you go in for? I go in for sports, skiing in winter, swimming and motoring in summer.

b)

         - Your hobby seems to be very useful.

    - Your pastime seems to be both practical and interesting.

    - He seems to be carried away by his hobbies.

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      - She seems to be sick and tired of collecting these useless things.

                                                  

                                                   c)

      - I usually stay at home in the evening reading books and papers.

    - She usually stays at home after work watching television.

- He usually stays at home cooking and washing.

- His wife is always busy discussing ecological problems with her friends.

        XIY. Read the dialogues. Try to retell them.

1.

    A. What is your hobby, Ann?

    B. I collect books published in the XYIII century.

    A. It is very interesting! Have you got many in your collection?

    B. There are almost two hundred of them.

    A. Quite a number, I should say! I wonder whether you manage to read them

    all.

     B. Reading is not essential. It is the process of collecting itself that interests me.

2.

A. What is your favourite pastime, Boris?

B. Fishing. I enjoy it very much.

A. Do you often go fishing?

B. Well, yes. I make it a point of spending a few hours by the river every weekend.

A. Do you usually catch much?

B. Well it depends.

                                                   3.

              A. What do you usually do after work, Jane?

B. Oh, a lot of things. There is always a lot of work to do about the house, washing up, doing the rooms, mending clothes.

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A. No, I don’t mean that. What is your favourite pastime?

               B. Again – nothing very special. Sometimes I read a little, watch TV

               or listen to the music.

              A. I see. What about dancing? Do you like it?

B. Oh, very. I am crazy about dancing. Do you mean to say we shall go to a dance?

               A. Yes, I should like to. There is a very good dancing party at the

College Club.